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Whilst currently in Camp Bastion with 36 Engr, 26 are preparing to move out of the next coming weeks. We were told today, that a couple of days ago 2 Mercians were under attack in a compound and heavly pinned down. There was a sapper (26) present, and he set up a barmine, charged up to the compound and well, that sorted the situation out.

LE

Old-Salt

I think he placed the barmine down and drew out his Hesco leathermans and scraped him to death with the blunt blade. Now if a planty was there, well a backhoe around the ears might have done the trick. Joking aside if he did that under fire GOOD LAD. Lets hope he gets the big bronze VC. Lets hope its another VC our way to the Corps history.

War Hero

MIA

AFG so far is how i expected it to be. Was in MT but it is quite over manned, and the fact that I cannot drive a bedford or even a landrover, only daff (which there isn't any off) I have been put into SQMS Dept. However, going lash because [opsec]I have a VERY Important sigs job soon[/opsec].

As to more informantion with the barmine, he supposedly strapped a simple initiation to it, which I think is more of less the standard MOE. I believe the story though, as 26 have been in the thick of it, even one nco was sturck on the head with an RPG and survived with burns. I'm guessing these two were wearing there stable belt.

MIA

AFG so far is how i expected it to be. Was in MT but it is quite over manned, and the fact that I cannot drive a bedford or even a landrover, only daff (which there isn't any off) I have been put into SQMS Dept. However, going lash because [opsec]I have a VERY Important sigs job soon[/opsec].

As to more informantion with the barmine, he supposedly strapped a simple initiation to it, which I think is more of less the standard MOE. I believe the story though, as 26 have been in the thick of it, even one nco was sturck on the head with an RPG and survived with burns. I'm guessing these two were wearing there stable belt.

Old-Salt

Old-Salt

I heard this from a mate who was back on R&R in Aug. The lad in question crawled for about 15 mins to get to the wall below the Talib position whilst his section was isolated in the open and under heavy fire. When he got there, he cut off a length of safety fuse, lit it, timed it, and then calculated how much S fuse he needed in order to bug-out.

He then cut the fuse to length, set up the initiation set, lit it and hoyed the barmine up over the wall onto the Taliban position (then he ran like feck). All of this was under fire and evidently the barmine dropped the whole building/compound and neutralised the threat.

LE

two things, the talk about Petards? Miracle workers. Germans sometimes gave up when one appeared. The other reminds me of the terrible things that sappers got up to with a pound of gun cotton..Bloody great big bang. Well done Sir!
Swordman

Crow

Old-Salt

I heard this from a mate who was back on R&R in Aug. The lad in question crawled for about 15 mins to get to the wall below the Talib position whilst his section was isolated in the open and under heavy fire. When he got there, he cut off a length of safety fuse, lit it, timed it, and then calculated how much S fuse he needed in order to bug-out.

He then cut the fuse to length, set up the initiation set, lit it and hoyed the barmine up over the wall onto the Taliban position (then he ran like feck). All of this was under fire and evidently the barmine dropped the whole building/compound and neutralised the threat.